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1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Internal choices have been provided in some questions. You have to attempt only
one of the choices in such questions.
3. Questions 1 to 8 are very short answer type question carrying 1 mark each.
4. Questions 9 to 18 are short answer type question carrying 2 marks each.
5. Questions 19 to 27 are also short answer type question carrying 3 marks each.
6. Questions 28 to 30 are very long answer type question carrying 5 marks each.
7. Use log tables, if necessary.
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£.1 Arrange the given electromagnetic radiation in descending order of
their frequencies: Infrared Rays, UV rays and gamma rays.

£.2 The graph shows the variation of voltage µV¶ across the plates of two
capacitors A and B versus charged on them. This of the capacitors has
higher capacitance?

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an upward force. What force. What is the charge sing on the particle?

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£.4 Light of wavelength 6000A0 in air enters a medium of =1.5. What will
be its frequency in the medium ?

£.5 Name the physical quantity whose S.I. unit is J/C.Is it scaler or a
vector quantity?

£.6 The ground state energy of H-atom is -13.6 ev.What are the kinetic and
potential energies of electron in this state?

£.7 Force is given by F=q*(V*B) of these name the pairs of vector which
are always at right angles to each other.

£.8 Two thin lenses of power +6D and -2D are in contact. What is the
focal length of the combination?

£.9 Obtain the binding energy of the nuclei 26Fe 56 in units of eV from the
following data:-mfe=55.934939u, mn=1.008665u and m p =1.007825u.

£.10 Distinguish between point to point and broadcast communication mode.

Give one example of each.

£.11 If the current sensitivity of a moving coil ± galvanometer is

increased by 20%, its resistance also increase by 1.5 times, How will
the voltage sensitivity of the galvanometer
be affected ?

£.12 The flux of the electrostatic field through the closed spherical surfaceµs¶
is found to be 4 times that through the closed spherical surface S. Find the
magnitude of the charge £. Given q 1 = 1 uc, q2 = - uc, q3 = 9.854 uc.

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£.13 What does the term LOS communication mean? Name the types of
waves that are used for this communication. Which of the two height of

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transmitting anteena and height of receiving anteena can affect the
range over which this mode of communication remains effective?

£.14 State Joulis law of heating by electric current. Name the materials used
for making
(i) Heater Element (ii) Standard resistors.

£.15 In the following circuit a meter bridge is shown in its balanced state.
The meter bridge wire has a resistance of 1ȍ/cm.Calculate the value of
unknown resistance µX¶ and the current drawn from the battery of negligible
internal resistance.
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£.16 A right angled crown glass prism with critical angle 41 0 is placed
between the object P£ in two positions as shown in the figures (i) and (ii).
Trace the path of rays from µP¶ and µ£¶ passing through the prisms in the two
cases.

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£.17 Violet light is incident on a thin convex lens. If this light is replaced
by red light, explain with reason, how the power of this lens would change?

£.18(a) Draw a graph showing the variation of potential energy of a pair

of nucleons as a function of their separation. Indicate the region in which
nuclear force is
(i) Attractive and (ii) Repulsive

(b) Write two characteristic features of nuclear force which distinguish it

from the Coulomb force.

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£.19 Distinguish between frequency modulation and amplitude
modulation. Why is an FM signal less susceptible to noise than an
AM signal?

£.20 What is an intrinsic type of semiconductor? How can this

material be converted into (i) P ± type (ii)N-type extrinsic
semi conductor. Explain with the help of en ergy band diagram.

£.21 Define the term decay constant of a radio active nucleus. Two nuclei P, £
have equal no. of atoms at t = 0. Their half lives are 3 hours and 9 hours
respectively. Compare their rates of disintegration, after 18 hours from the
start.

£.22 Deduce an expression for the self ± inductance of a long solenoid of µN¶
terms, having a core of relative permeability µ r.

£.23 A double convex lens of glass of refractive index 1.6 has its both
surfaces of equal radii of curvature of 30 cm each. An object of height 5
cm is placed at a distance of 12.5 cm from the lens. Calculate the size of the
image formed.

£.24 Mention the significance of Davison ± Germer experiment and Ȑ ±

particle and a proton are accelerated from rest through the same p.d V¶.
Find the ratio of de ± broglie wave length associated with them.

£.25 What is the effect on the interference frindges in a young¶s double slit
experiment due to each of the following operations:
a) The screen is moved away from the plane of the slits;
b) the (monochromatic) source is replaced by another (monochromatic)
source of shorter wavelength;
c) The separation between the two slits is increased

£.26 A resistance of R ohm draws current from a potentiometer. The

potentiometer has a total resistance R o ohm as shown in figure.

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expression for the voltage across R¶ when the sliding contact is in the
middle of the potentiometer.

£.27 Derive an expression for the energy stored in a parallel plate capacitor
C¶ with air as the medium between its plates and having charges ¶£¶.
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show that energy can be expressed in terms of the electric field as where µ A¶
is the area of the plate and µd¶ is the separation between the plates.
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Define the term dipole moment of an electric field indicating its

direction. Write its S. I. unit.
An electric dipole is placed in a uniform electric field , deduce
an expression for the torque acting on it. In a cits
particular situation, it has
dipole moment aligned with the electric field. Is the equilibrium stable or
unstable?

£.28 (a) Draw a ray diagram to show the refraction of light through a glass
prism. Hence obtain the relation for the angle of deviation in terms of the
angle of incidence, Angle of emergence and the angle of the prism.

(b) A right angled isosceles glass prism is made from glass of

refractive index 1.5. Show that a ray of light incident normally on :

(i) One of the equal sides of this prism is deviated through 900.

(ii) The hypotenuse of this prism is deviated through 180 0.

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£.(a) With the help of a labeled ray diagram, show the image formation
by a compound microscope. Derive an expression for its magnifying
power.

(b) How does the resolving power of a compound microscope get

reflected on:

(i) Decreasing the diameter of its objective?

(ii) Increasing the focal length of its objective.

£.29 Define the term wavefront. Draw the wavefront and corresponding rays in
the case of a

(i) Diverging spherical wave .

(ii) Plant wave.

Using huygen¶s construction of a wavefront, explain the refraction of a

plane wavefront at a plane surface and hence verify Snell¶s law.

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